August 13 - We've been released!
Tim will stay in the hospital until tomorrow; he continues to improve every hour.
August 11 - 4:45am
We have to be at the hospital at 6am. Our dear friends invited us to come and stay with them, and I've got to thank them for their foresight in choosing a home so close to the transplant hospital! So now we are waking up at 4:45 instead of ...2am? Thank you, D&A! Yesterday we dropped off the dog at the boarder, just 3 days after we picked her up from our vacation travels. I felt bad about that, and worried about how she'd react, (she's a very scared puppy) but it turns out she was delighted to go back, and reacted to their staff member in a way I've never seen her do for anyone except...well, me. (I'm secretly a little jealous!) So now I'm in the kitchen waiting for my toast, and trying to be as quiet as I can because there are 4 sleeping children upstairs, and two sleeping adults down the hall, and I want to stay in their good graces for at least the next week. Meanwhile their cat, who has never paid me an ounce of attention before, is suddenly...
You know, it's one thing to marvel in the abstract that you are going to have another person's kidney inside your body.
ReplyDeleteIt is ineffably, unfathomably greater to feel the changes it is working inside you by the hour. To realize this nap you're waking from, this chicken nugget you're eating, this sunset reflected on an abandoned construction site you're seeing -- all the grand and tiny moments that make up a day or a life, are because of a gift that someone felt worth giving to you.
It's not something you can walk around with easily, even if the 18 staples in your side were inclined to let you.